The dead don't just vote in Chicago

A demographic group which reliably votes Democrat, the dead previously could be labeled as lazy, unemployed, loungeabouts (like bloggers). Turns out not all dead people are unemployed.

One was a drunk. Some were laughed at as "goofballs." One was declared the best-qualified candidate for a job on the city payroll -- even though he was dead.

All of them were recommended for city jobs or hired because they were politically connected and helped to get out the vote on Election Day, according to U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald.

"That's the world we want to end," Fitzgerald said Monday in announcing charges against two members of Mayor Richard M. Daley's administration accused of illegally doling out patronage jobs.

Maybe I have a poor imagination, but they do funnier stuff than I could make up.